Samsung Smart TV Application: Hiding Mouse Cursor

Since working in Samsung Smart TV Application part, i have no time to explore any other interesting topics beside of Samsung Smart TV itself. But i think it’s still quite interesting to explore since they got the latest technology and features in their TVs. The 2012 Samsung Smart TV Series now give a gesture recognition feature which enabling our hand to be a mouse like in the PCs so this post will be how to hide the mouse cursor image, sometimes we need to hide this thing to give more stunning effects to the UI.

What we must know before and that’s the basic of the hiding cursor:

Samsung Smart TV 2012 Series Widget/Application Engine is using Webkit

The cursor image can be customized using CSS

Don’t forget to give “, default” in the cursor CSS

The image must be sized in 32 x 32 pixels

It cannot be completely transparent

Suggested to use PNG format

So the solution is using CSS with almost transparent image which sized in 32 x 32 pixels, you can create it by yourself or take mine which is fully free without any restriction even you sell it (if you can)